Ready your red canvas, Fasten the straps of your boots The silver spurs can't weigh You down more than fear has already. Remember, you are not alone.
We in the stands are watching While you dance in circles with the beast Teasing him with your canvas, Waving it like an enemy banner before his Crazed eyes, his pierced nose garnished By a gold ring, whose furious nostrils spout Blood in every snarl.
We in the stands,watching are not here to see a beast subdued by Calm words or a stroked ear. We came to see a man gored, Pierced through his stomach Tossed limp against the ground Blood that feeds the grass and our Eyes.
But you did not enter into this ring to die. You came to conquer the beast, To pounce upon his massive shoulders, Grasp him by his mighty horns To ride his bucking back, amidst The brays and snarls, the jeering crowd Until your blade has met his neck and His tongue lolls from his mighty maw, You came to fight; you came for victory.